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The Job Paradox

The USA is in a paradoxical position. Workers cannot get jobs and employers cannot
find workers to fill positions. What has happened? It started some time ago when
companies started laying off their workers when they did not need them temporarily.
They would even fire people who had put in 30 years service.
Often they would move the jobs offshore, so the jobs never came back. In other words,
the companies lost their loyalty to their workers and disowned the traditional
Japanese-like responsibility for the welfare of the workers. The workers then
conversely lost their loyalty to companies. They no longer expected to spend their
working life working for one company. So workers started leaving for better jobs
tempted by only a small incentive. Previously, when an employee was permanent, it made
sense for the company to invest in his continuing education or on-the-job training. But
when an employee might leave at any moment, that investment stopped. Logically,
recruiters demanded new workers who were 100% pre-trained
with both the necessary education and on-the-job training since there was no budget for
bringing them up to speed. (You see the ads for computer analysts demanding
7 years proficiency in 5 obscure
software packages, 2 of which were released less than
3 years ago.) But because the work place is changing so
quickly and because employers are no longer investing in education and because
recruiters want pre-trained, not just capable workers, recruiters are rejecting tens of
thousands of otherwise suitable applicants. The solution: almost mandatory ongoing
training funded by the worker, employer and government that lets an almost-prefect
applicant come up to speed for a specific job, with guaranteed acceptance for the job
on successful completion of the training.

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